The first thing they had us do was take out our contacts. Not knowing how blind we were, they sat us down at a table and offered a dish of something. To see what was in the dish, we had to get within a 1/4" to see that it was candy - our noses were pretty much in the bowl. My senses tell me we got some strange looks, though I can't be sure since I couldn't see them.
After wowing them with our high-powered needs, he asked us to put these beauties on and walk around.
Then we chose frames. One of Daegu's claims to fame is glasses. There are hundreds of places to get glasses with a mind blowing array of frames. When asked, Sonya told the salesman I wanted something pretty, so he sat me down and said approximately, "I will choose what looks good on you," which involved a lot of red and diamonds. The man was unstoppable. He was pulling out bejeweled glasses faster than I could put them on. I finally convinced him I wanted something plain and not so pretty. After some looking, we chose our glasses, Sonya bargained on the price, and within 20 minutes (beat that Lens Crafters), we had our new spectacles.
Excellent craftmanship on the thin lenses. Mom always made me shop on the "Welfare Wall" at Vision Express of Abilene, but my glasses came out cheaper and much better done - without insurance and the smoking ladies breathing in my face while measuring my glasses.
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